More than 60 people were killed Friday evening after a speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India. The victims, which include children, were celebrating Dusshera, a Hindu festival, where an effigy of demon Ravana was burned and watched the fireworks display. Police told the BBC that more than 60 people have been killed and 100 injured. Organizers of the religious festival reportedly asked people to stay away from the firecrackers, but participants may have run for the train tracks out of fear that the burning effigy could collapse. “Why did authorities allow the fireworks display so close to the railroad track?” the person told a local TV channel.

Source: Fox News October 20, 2018 12:45 UTC